Word: almquist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Tenor Dennis Day (real name: Eugene Denis McNulty), 41, and Peggy Almquist McNulty, 34: their fifth son, seventh child; in Los Angeles. Name: Thomas Francis. Weight...
They never got there. Edward Almquist, the last boy in line, bent over to adjust his skis, heard a sound like "rumbling drums," glanced up, and saw the smoking, tumbling white front of an avalanche racing down upon them. He yelled, fled, fell. When he got up, the mountains were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again...
...hours. He prayed. Melting snow ran into one of his ears-drop by drop-like a Chinese torture. The bad air made him sick and he vomited. But he kept himself motionless, hour after hour, as darkness fell-and as a rescue party, guided by his friend Eddie Almquist-battled upward through a blinding blizzard...